Your application was abandoned for failure to respond
Official wording: Abandoned- Failure to Respond or Late Response.
A response deadline passed and the application has been abandoned. It may still be revivable, but the window is measured in weeks rather than months, so the issue date on your notice of abandonment is the first thing to find and the only date that matters today.
The window to revive is two months
Under 37 CFR 2.66(a) a petition to revive must be filed no later than two months after the issue date of the notice of abandonment. If you did not receive that notice, and you formally declare that, the alternative is two months from the date you actually learned of the abandonment and in no event later than six months after USPTO electronic records show the application as abandoned. Find the issue date on your own record before you do anything else.
What the petition has to show
Under 37 CFR 2.66(b) it needs the petition fee, a statement from someone with firsthand knowledge that the delay was unintentional, and the response you should have filed. Where the original office action carried a three-month response period and you are not claiming you never received it, an extension request fee is due as well. Unintentional is a real standard, not a formality, and the statement is signed.
If the abandonment followed a final refusal
Your response is treated as a request for reconsideration, and you also have to file an appeal or petition where one is available to you, or state plainly that you are not filing one. That makes it a more involved filing than a straightforward revival, and it is worth understanding which of the two you are facing before you start.
If the window has already closed
Then the application cannot be revived and the filing fee is gone with it. Refiling is the remaining route, and it is worth doing the clearance work properly first: whatever objection stopped the first application will still be waiting for the second one, and paying the government fee twice to find that out is the expensive way to learn it.
What we do here
Send us the notice of abandonment and the office action behind it. We will tell you whether the window is still open, what the petition would need, and whether it is worth filing at all. If it is not, you will be told that rather than sold a petition that cannot succeed.
Confirm this against your own record
Status code descriptions are administered inside USPTO systems and published wording varies slightly between sources. Your file is the authority. Enter your serial number in TSDR to see your current status, every document filed, and any live deadline.
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What comes before and after
Status 630
Filed, and waiting in the queue
Status 638
An examining attorney now has your file
Status 640
An office action has been counted, but not sent yet
Status 641
Your non-final office action has been mailed
Status 680
The examiner cleared your mark
Status 700
Your mark is registered
Status 645
Your final refusal has been mailed
Status 612
Your request to bring the application back to life has been received